I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
Friendship scattered across the globe is an enriching exchange: A look outside the box to understand people and their different cultures.
Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.
We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.
A moment is the root from which all things grow if you can understand a moment of time, everything else is included.
Science tells me time is an illusion. My heart tells me time must exist. My mind tells me I'll never understand time.
Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
I don't enjoy reality television at all. I have to say that I get it, though. I watch some of it, and I understand why people enjoy it.
They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.
It is important for all of us to understand that free people are not governed by rules. Here at Hillsdale we are governed by goals, and then the rules are very broad.
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.
I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.
The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
